The "Unofficial" Empire EFI Support Thread

[se7ensmatrix1216]

Hello Everyone!

First time poster here and wow, I have never felt like such a noob before in my life.

System Specs:
AMD Phenom II 965 BE C3 (OC: 3.6 GHZ)
MSI 790FX-GD70
Crucial Ballistix 1600 MHz @ 7-7-7-21-28-1T
2 OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD (Running W7)
1 WD Caviar Black (4 Partitions - Primary Mac Dedicated)
2 ATI HD 4890 in CrossfireX x16

First off, I'm not even sure how to begin my process here. I've downloaded Empire EFI, and several kexts as have been suggested for my setup, but that's about as far as it gets.

When I burn the ISO onto a disk, and I run EFI. Loads, put in my retail 10.6 disk, Darwin loads, then, almost instantly I get kernel panic.

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A8FFD): Kernel trap at 0x0019a8c2,type 14=page fault

debugger called: <panic> backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

I am pretty much at a stand still. I cannot install at all, once the installer SHOULD load, it shuts down and gives me this instead. I'm really lost, and if anyone would be willing to assist me, please send me a PM. I would greatly appreciate it!

[flightsim]

I have a laptop with:
GT240M
I7 720
6gb ram

I try and use the 1.085r2 for the nvidia cards, but no luck, only restarts following the press any key to continue. Any suggestions?

[MNG]

i tried a lot with this Empire Efi but nothing worked for me, i tried v1.08, v1.085 and even the modified tuned version for x58 motherboards but still no result
when i say no result, i mean it gets stuck with a message that says:
'Still waiting for root device'
'Still waiting for root device'
etc
etc
anyone have any idea what to do here? i'm stumped

[se7ensmatrix1216]

Noone here has any answers. I've come to find most of these "help" sites are pretty worthless.

[k3r3nsk7]

Hello,

I'm installing OS:X with Empire Efi and when it finally is at 100 % it says it can't restart the disk and that I have to manually use StartUp disk tool.

In this tool I get this error:

The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk

anyone ideas or suggestions?

[Katori]

I'm using the latest one (the second AMD version on the page) and a 10.6 retail install DVD on a Phenom II X4 940, with 8gb of RAM. I'm getting a kernel panic. EmpireEFI works fine but when I put my disk in and boot it up it goes to a kernel panic without any kind of graphical screen. Here's a picture of the screen (phone camera, sorry). What can I do?

[jznomoney]

I also have a phenom II 940 BE with 4gb of ram on a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H mb. I have my mb set to ahci mode with a sata dvd drive. I have PATA disabled in the bios. I am getting this error. I used the 1.085r2 of empire efi. Once I press any key after empire efi is ready to launch from the 10.6 installation disc i get this error.

[50chevy]

Praysys, Thanks for putting out empire efi. Really appreciate it.

I am using the 10.85r2 i7 version of Empire EFI.

All is working for me.Originally built my system with a ide dvd drive and could not boot. empire efi boots fine for me via sata and usb dvd.

Here are the specs.

MB: Gigabyte GA-EX58A-UD3R Rev1.0 (BIOS F3) PSU: Antec EarthWatts 500 Case: 4u RackMount CPU: Intel Core i7 930 (2.93 GHz) + Zalman CPNS 9700 NIC: On Board
RAM: 6 x 2GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 GPU: GeForce GTS250 1024mb
Bootloader: EmpireEFI OS: 10.6.3 Kexts: (/E/E -> fakesmc framebufferdisabler legacyappleRTC_32bit_only nullcpupowermanagerment openhaltrestart PlatformUUID) (/S/L/E -> None) DSDT: (not yet)

[slyb2]

hi guys,

I already have one hackintosh with empire efi and now would like "emperify" my acer revo too.
Unfortunately I don`t have an external dvd reader &I don`t know how too boot empire efi from usb...
I`ve tried to follow these instructions but with no succes..
after I restore Empire efi to the partition I can`t get it to boot.
the diskutil list shows like this:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS snow 42.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS seven 36.8 GB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS store 240.3 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *8.1 GB disk1
1: Apple_HFS Empire EFI 100.0 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS Mac OS X Install DVD 8.0 GB disk1s2

How can I do it???

[Pippinfrog]

Hi, I'm currently having problems with installing Leopard / Snow Leopard via Empire Efi. When i'm told to press any key to continue it goes in but the dvd drive doesn't start up and after some time it shows "still looking for root device". I've tried to connect the drive to different SATA ports but i still get "waiting for root device" and it doesnt start to read the disk.

I've also tried booting from a PATA drive but doesn't work either, also tried to turn on and off AHCI mode but to no help.

Motherboard is Gigabyte EP45-DS3 with Intel Core 2 Duo E6750

Any solution on how to get it to work?

Thanks.